Thanks for the advice!!! I'm a tad embarrassed to say, but I don't seem to have iwconfig (nor ifconfig) on my system. I have the GUI versions (system-config-networks) but not the command line programmes Thanks again On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:13 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > steven ney wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I am trying to get a PCI/PCMCIA D-Link DWL 650 (rev J3) card to work on > > both my Fedora C3 desktop (PIII, 700MHz, 512M) and my Thinkpad X20. Both > > machines recognise the card/ chipset (Intersil Prism II) but after > > configuring the wlan connection (as an adhoc network), I can't activate > > the wlan network on the desktop. What is more, the error message flashes > > past so quickly that I can only make out it is allegedly not getting the > > MAC number its expecting. (As you probably can tell, I'm a noob) > > > > I have looked through the fora and have not found anything on this card > > and I would greatly appreciate any advice. > > I used to have one of those. Does iwconfig show the card? If so, > then the problem has to do with the /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file. > There's no entry that matches the D-Link's MAC address. > > You can bypass that by using the iwconfig commands directly or by > using system-config-network to set them up. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - The gene pool could use a little chlorine. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >
